In the beginning there was a Big Bang. The first person to propose the theory of the expansion
In the beginning there was a Big Bang.The first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe was a Belgian priest named Monsignor Georges Lemaître. Lemaître was an astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom’The theory of the expansion of the Universe is widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble, yet Lemaître was also the first to derive what is now known as the Hubble’s law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble’s article.Lemaître was a pioneer in applying Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity to cosmology, but Einstein initially refused to accept the idea of an expanding universe, commenting to Lemaître "Your maths is correct, but your physics is abominable.“ After Hubble’s discovery was published, Einstein quickly and publicly endorsed Lemaître’s theory.Unlike many of the American Evangelical Churches, the Catholic Church also does not reject the theory of evolution. In 2006, the Vatican astronomer stated that believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism. He dismissed Creationism as a "kind of paganism” because it harked back to the days of “nature gods” who were responsible for natural events.In 2004, a Theological Commission overseen by Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) issued this statement: “According to the widely accepted scientific account, the universe erupted 15 billion years ago in an explosion called the ‘Big Bang’ and has been expanding and cooling ever since. […] Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth"Now if they could just get their heads around the use of condoms….Picture: “God as Architect” - c.1250. -- source link
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